Most readers know Salem only for the city's notorious witch trials. But years later it became a very different city, one that produced America's first millionaire (still one of history's 75 wealthiest men) and boasted a maritime trade that made it the country's richest city. Westward expansion and the industrial revolution would eventually erode Salem's political importance, but it was a shocking murder and the scandal that followed which led at last to its fall from national prominence. 
Death of an Empire is a finely-written tale of a little-known but remarkably rich era of American history, drawing in characters such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Quincy Adams, and Daniel Webster.

Death of an Empire: The Rise and Murderous Fall of Salem, America's Richest City

History

Booth, Robert

Americas

Thomas Dunne Books

History seekers can follow Boston's red-brick trail to the beginnings of the Republic. From the site of the Boston Massacre to the Bunker Hill Monument, the historic landmarks of Boston exemplify the greatest events in American history. This handy guide to the Freedom Trail, the route linking these sites, has been updated with expanded descriptions of the landmarks and improved locator maps.Covering 3 miles and 16 sites, the Freedom Trail attracts over 2 million visitors a year.

Boston's Freedom Trail

Moskow, Shirley (editor)

Travel

Globe Pequot Press, The

Boston's Freedom Trail: A Souvenir Guide

Frost, Jack

Moskow, Shirley Blotnick

Globe Pequot Pr

There's no better way to relive the birth of our nation than by walking along the 2 1/2 mile Boston's Freedom Trail. Readers can put on their walking shoes and use this illustrated guide as a companion as they follow Boston's redbrick trail past the site of the Boston Massacre, the Bunker Hill Monument, and twenty-four other historic landmarks. Each entry in this souvenir guide includes information about admission fees, wheelchair accessibility, telephone numbers, and Web sites.

Insiders' Guide Boston's Freedom Trail: A Souvenir Guide

Bollerud, Erica

United States

Relive the birth of our nation along Boston's historic Freedom Trail with this illustrated guide to twenty-six legendary landmarks.

Boston's Freedom Trail: Trace the Path of American History

<div> The key to mitigating the environmental crisis isn't just based on science; it depends upon a profound philosophical revision of how we think about and behave in relation to the world. Our ongoing failure to interrupt the environmental crisis in a meaningful way stems, in part, from how we perceive the environment--what Robert Booth calls the "more-than-human world." Anthropocentric presumptions of this world, inherited from natural science, have led us to better scientific knowledge about environmental problems and more science-based--yet inadequate--practical "solutions." That's not enough, Booth argues. Rather, he asserts that we must critically and self-reflexively revise how we perceive and consider ourselves within the more-than-human world as a matter of praxis in order to arrest our destructive impact on it. Across six chapters, Booth brings ecophenomenology--environmentally focused phenomenology--into productive dialogue with a rich array of other philosophical approaches, such as ecofeminism, new materialism, speculative realism, and object-oriented ontology. The book thus outlines and justifies why and how a specifically ecophenomenological praxis may lead to the disruption of the environmental crisis at its root. Booth's observations and arguments make the leap from theory to practice insofar as they may influence how we fundamentally grasp the environmental crisis and what promising avenues of practical activism might look like. In Booth's view, this is not about achieving a global scientific consensus regarding the material causes of the environmental crisis or the responsible use of "natural resources." Instead, Booth calls for us to habitually resist our impetus to uncritically reduce more-than-human entities to "natural resources" in the first place. As Booth recognizes, Becoming a Place of Unrest cannot and does not tell us how we should act. Instead, it outlines and provides the basic means by which to instill positive and responsible conceptual and behavioral relationships with the rest of the world. Based on this, there is hope that we may begin to develop more concrete, actionable policies that bring about profound and lasting change. </div>

Becoming a Place of Unrest: Environmental Crisis and Ecophenomenological Praxis (Series In Continental Thought)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Ohio University Press

Globe Pequot Press

What if a naval captain went rogue with an American battleship? In October, 1812, as the 32-gun U.S. frigate Essex ventured out against the British enemy, only one man had any idea that this cruise would turn into the longest, strangest naval adventure in American history. That man was Captain David Porter, who had decided to run off with the navy's ship and its three hundred men to fight a separate Pacific war--one of privateering, pillaging, and orgies. Drawing on Porter's own writings and the accounts of eyewitnesses, the author memorably recounts the events of a dark and fatal voyage in which David Porter crosses the line from commander to cult-leader, from improbable fantasy to disastrous reality. In a tale so amazing that it reads like fiction, Porter, impelled by his own demons and by rivalry with the ghostly British buccaneer Lord Anson, took his men and boys on a seventeen-month mystery tour that did not end until he had disrupted the Chilean revolution, captured the entire English whaling fleet (manned mainly by Americans), vanished into the enchanted Galapagos, and re-emerged in Polynesia, where he made himself the conqueror-chief of the stone-age Nukuhivans. In the end, when he sought redemption with a glorious victory over a British opponent, he failed terribly and sacrificed the lives of one-third of his crew to his personal notions of heroism. Robert Booth tells the story of the ill-fated Essex with accuracy, immediacy, and a broad vision of its meanings as an epic of war, a gripping tale of the sea, a brilliant portrait of a disturbed and disturbing American hero, and a geo-political thriller that sheds new light on the origins of U.S. imperialism, the tragedy of missed opportunities, and the disastrous and permanent impact of Porter's rampage on the peoples of the Pacific.

Mad For Glory: A Heart of Darkness in the War of 1812

Tilbury House

King's Lynn Schools

Tricky Sam Publishing

King's Lynn - an Illustrated Street Directory 1933

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